Name Generator

From agrumer, last month:
1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet and current street name)
Fuzzy Valentine (Decent--very Late New Wave. Maybe I could tour with Echo and the Bunnymen.)

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your dad's side, your favorite candy)
Edward Peppermint Patty (Nope; and Edward Moon Pie doesn't work any better as a movie star name, though it has a certain ring to it. And Edward Truffles and Edward Icebreakers sound like Red Lectroid names.)

3. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME: (first initial of first name, first two or three letters of your last name)
K-Mar (K-Ma is even worse, but at least it doesn't sound like I'm having a blue light special on my ass.)

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite animal, favorite color)
Tiger Purple ("Tiger" is a good prizefighter name; purple, not so much.)

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
John Holyoke (Now that is a name.)

6.YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters of mother's maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet's name)
Marrts Aub (This is ambiguous about "pet"--I have twelve current pets to choose among, and chose the best fit, though "Chi", "Ozz", and "Sil" all work quite well, too. If it means "first pet", as used in Rock Star, I get Marrts Fuz. The four consonants in a row is cool either way.)

7. JEDI NAME: (middle name spelled backwards, your mom's maiden name spelled backwards)
Nhoj Strebor ("Noj" might work as a name. "Strebor" is such a familiar name that it doesn't seem exotic enough!)

8. PORN STAR NAME: (middle name, street you grew up on)
John Fairlane. (Very nice.)

9. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The", your favorite color, the automobile you drive)
The Purple Sable (Because of the Spider-Man supporting character Silver Sable, I think of "Sable" as a woman's name. Another choice is The Purple Legacy, which sounds very Grant Morrison-on-a-bad-day. The Purple Taurus sounds like Grant Morrison-on-a-really-bad-day. I did once have a Champions character named the Purple Maniac.)

And for those of you thinking, "It's not a good idea to post your mother's maiden name on the web", my mother's last name at birth, "Roberts," isn't what I use as a security password. Mi abuelita remarried when she was young and that second name is what we use as mom's maiden name.

Every time I think I know what to expect

. . . I misunderestimate right-wing lunatics still further.

I knew it was a mistake to follow the link supergee provided to Michelle "Internment Camps? Sounds Good to Me!" Malkin's post about the Texas Rangers wearing "Los Rangers" jerseys to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. I knew the post would be petty, stupid, and awful.

Even then, I wasn't expecting this:

While it's considered a celebration of "diversity" to acknowledge the military sacrifices of another nation's heroes, it's considered racist to acknowledge the military sacrifices of one's own.

Case in point: Can you imagine if someone proposed changing the Rangers' jerseys to "Confederate Rangers" to celebrate Confederate Heroes' Day?

Oh, and I'm sure I'll be labeled a racist for pointing out the double standard.

No, Michelle, you'll be labeled a racist for comparing a war fought to avoid conquest by overseas imperialists with a traitorous rebellion fought to allow people to buy and sell other people like livestock. It's a typically unhinged Malkinism, with extra historical idiocy thrown in.

None of my "nation's heroes" died fighting for the slavers. There were many brave people on the side of the slave-holders--there are brave people on any side in any war--but they were no none of them my nation's heroes. They were true traitors in a way that today's right wing only aspire to be.